The Arizona sentinel., 1887-05-28
THE SCIENCE OF EATING.

The Dangers of Over-LOadinG Ones StOm
 ach-Stories About Children and Hints t' Them.
 Some very essential things to long and comfortable life are substantial nurishing food, properly cooked ant properly eaten; and one very i'm portant point in proper eating is to cal what is sufficient, and not what we are more apt to do, to eat enough. It will give you little study in word analysis to look out the exact meaning ot ''enough'' and sufficient" and com pare them. It is a habit with many persons to eat all they want, to fully satisfy their appetites. A gluttOn o1 greedy person is rarely healthy or happy, and more persons are injured by overeating than by taking too little food. I did not admire the child, but 1 was amused at his remarks when he de- manded another cake at table. "You've had five or six already" replied his mother. ''Them ain't the ones I want; l wants fresh one," whined the little cormorant.
 It would surprise some of you who indulge your appetites to know. how little of the proper kind of food is nee essary to life and health. A gentle man of high standing in his profession as lawyer, past sixty, but as active and vigorous as man of forty, was asked by friend the secret of his perfect health. He said: '1 eat a plain, wholesome break fast, walk nearly three miles to my of- fice-rain or shine, hot or cold. 1 swing my legs over the ground. I take no lunch. and walk home at five o'clock to dinner I make 6 hearty dinner-no fancy dishes, no hot sauces, no pies and buildings, no wine. am frequently compelled to attend dinners, banquets and festivals, but I never change my habits
 There is an old proverb-"One mans food is another mans poison = and, of course, it is impossible to lay down any rules as to what people in general shall eat; but experience soon makes it a pretty easy matter for any one of us to do this in his own case. Perhaps the largest statement as to a nourishing diet, to be found outside of an advertisement of a patent food for invalids or children, is in the story told by little girl:
 "Uncle John," said little Emily, do you know that a baby that was fed on elephants milk gained twenty pounds in one week?'
 "Nonsense! Impossibler' exclaime d Uncle John, and then asked: "Whose baby was it?'
 1t was the elephants babyT said little Emily.
 I heard of an Italian nobleman in the sixteenth century, Count Cornaro, who lost his fortune and hls health while quite a young man by intemperance in eating and drinking, and his physician told him he had not long to live. But he found himself very unwilling to die; so he began to be very prudent in his diet and habits. He found, by experi- menting, that twelve ounces of solid food and thirteen ounces of liquid food was sufficient for him. Gradually he recovered his health, but never changed his habits of eating except to increase the quantity of food to fourteen and of drink to sixteen ounces at one time But he says:
 Scarcely had continued this mode ten days when began, instead of be- ing cheerful and lively as before, to be- come uneasy and dejected. a burden to myself and to others. On the twelfth day was seized with a fever of such violence, that for thirty-fve days my life was despaired of But by the blessing of God and my former regimen, I recovered; and now, in my eighty-third year, 1 enjoy happy state of both body and mind. can mount my horse unaid- ed. I climb steep hills. When I re- turn home from private company, or the Senate, find eleven grandchildren, whose education, amusements and songs are the delight of my old age. myself often sing with them, for my voice is clearer and stronger than it was in my youth; and am stranger to those peevish and morose humors which so often fall to the lot of old age"
 When about to die he raised his eyes and exclaimed, with great animation Full of joy and hope, I resign myself to thee, most merciful God r' He then disposed himself with dignity and closed his eyes, as if about to slumber, gave a little sigh. and expired, in his ninety ninth year.
 Thomas Parr, of Shropshire, En- gland, was a farm servant who main tained himself by daily labor, and must have lived on plain food he lived to be one hundred and fifty-twO years